My year has been a down ward spiral of ill health and unbearable physical pain, and my family wanted to put me in an aged care home. Shock, horror, confrontation! So I started losing weight, decluttering, downsizing, and getting fit in every way possible. Now I need to say to my children-Do I look like I’m ready for an aged home? That , so far, has been unacknowledged. Mmmm…. I have transformed myself in so many ways. I am so proud of myself. I am now ready for a year of improvement, self care, becoming aware of life, the universe, my actions and thoughts and needs. And working a studio that is now full of space, not clutter. Cheers to you, Wendy, and to me!
Wow 😲😳 so glad you have transformed yourself! Yes cheers to you🎉🍾🥂 Well done 💪🪄✨️✨️ Best wishes 🌠🌠for continued good health & independence for 2025 and many more years to come💪✨️💖✨️
Sounds like a year of true restoration! May God bless you this new year beyond all that you could ask or think! And May your children recognize the hard work you have put into your life to restore and renew yourself! I hope you are proud of yourself- I’m proud of you , that’s a ton of work in every area of your life!
You go girl. It's easy for offspring to tell us how we should live without actually asking or considering our feelings and the consequences of what they think we should do.
The only thing I can say about last year is that this year will be better. I lost my husband in September after his health slowly declined, and I'm still coming to terms with it. But I have turned to journaling and art journaling to figure things out. My word for this year is "renewal."
Condolences for your loss. I'm pleased that you are journaling and art journaling to help you. Be kind to yourself. Sending you lots of Light for 2025.
I got my painting things out after I lost my husband 3 years ago and started painting daily. It was very therapeutic and really helped me, giving me something to focus on each day. I hope it does the same for you. Take care.
I'm so sorry. I lost my dad in 2020 and my mom this past November, so I get it. I hope that 2025 is kinder to you and that you find comfort in journaling as you continue on your healing journey. I know it's helping me. P.S. Renewal is a good word. I think that I'll use that one as well. ❤🩹🌅🌟
I , too, tend to feel a bit down and suffer from “the Januarys”. Winter can feel so long and dark here in Canada so I am trying something new this year and leaving my Christmas tree up. It’s one of those skinny trees, so it doesn’t take up much space. I took all the Christmas decorations off and put up some pretty birds and a few glass beads to give it a bit more sparkle. I am planning on leaving it up until the end of February but, we’ll see! The light does a lot to lift my spirits and it does bring a smile to my face!
That sounds like a lovely idea! My boyfriend and I just purchased and received a light therapy lamp to help with the never ending grey days here lately in Canada.
I'M replying in the new year, but my one word for 2024 would be overwhelming. Wendy your someone I have followed for a long time now, living in a rural area were friends and true close spirits are rarely available, plus becoming a recluse has something to do with that. But I must say, a petite little lady that is on a small IPad screen is my closest friend and support and I love you for that. Thankyou.
Hi Wendy, If my year was a movie what would it be called? I would have to say “Leaving The Past Behind”. My Mother passed suddenly at the end of 2023 and this year has seen a huge adjustment for my family. 😢 The grief and tears that have been shed not only because my Mum is no longer here, but the grief I feel for my family as we all drift apart at a time when we should have been there for each other. And the biggest realisation that I have to leave the past behind and forge a new path. It has not been an easy year so I am really hoping that 2025 will be a softer, kinder year for me and my family. I think we have had enough heartache for the time being. Thanks for your videos. They always gave me solace and comfort. You inspire me to be better. 😊❤
Your hair looks very pretty in those two buns you had in the beginning and I always get so happy when I hear the way you pronounce "aaaand" in between lines... It always cheers me up! I also had a rough year in 2024, my autoimmune illness was just bad and I had an overall difficult time with PTSD symptoms. But I'm sure 2025 will get better, I can feel it! Love your videos!
That market haul though! So many things to love! Congrats on the new granddaughter...grandbabies are so precious. Movie title would have been Groundhog Day for most of the year, but things started changing for the better in the fall.
Snow today in Newcastle Upon Tyne so I did a wardrobe declutter and it feels like such a weight off. This year as a movie!!! The great untangling 😅 I will be 12 months sober (long list of things!) on Friday 10th!! Healed some trauma through therapy and am rediscovering myself at age 41!! I love this to summarise 2024....One day, she remembered that the only person who could make her happy was HERSELF! So she took back her power, re-claimed her place in the world and shined like never before! Happy New Year xx
What wonderful inspiration your comment is to me! Congratulations on being 12 months sober, what a huge achievement that is. It’s so great that you are rediscovering yourself now, at 41. You have so much time to explore who you are and what you love! I’m 61 and have been diagnosed with Complex PTSD. I’ve yet to be able to access and therapy as is quite expensive and annoyingly 14 years ago I had an accident that stopped me working and I’ve ended up on a disability pension. So, I have to figure out how to help myself as best I can. One of my biggest joys this year was actually finding Wendy and her wonderful videos! I’ve always loved art, since I was little but I was never allowed to learn it (mum was a narcissist, my sister and brother were favourites for different reasons and I was the “bad” one, the youngest, the outcast. I was the one who got in trouble, being beaten etc. Anyway, then I married a narcissist who was also abusive. 🤣🤪 Anything I liked or loved doing was out of the question, except for my four children. It was because of them I eventually found the courage to leave. Then, just as I was starting to find myself for the very first time in my life, I had the car accident and here we are. I also have auto immune issues (no surprises there with my history, lol). I am determined to do several things this year. Start an art journal practice, learn to draw, declutter, regular exercise, continue with eating healthier and trying to get our out and about more. At the moment i only go out for medical stuff or groceries. I live in the middle of suburbia with not a lot of nature nearby. Decluttering is A HUGE job because my mum, dad and sister have all passed and since there’s only my brother (whom I rarely talk to) I’ve had to take on ALL their stuff to sort. Art journaling, as I honestly think it will help with my trauma but also make ME happy. I just have to find/create a safe space to do it in. Drawing lessons, because I’m so much better in my head than in reality 😂 and in the meantime paint as best I can. I think Wendy said in one of her videos if you don’t know what to do, just swatch your supplies… so I’ll start there. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this part of your comment… “one day, she remembered that the only person who could make her happy was HERSELF! So she took back her power, re-claimed her place in the world and shined like never before!” I want to be able to look back on 2025 and say I did that! I will shine when I can and cocoon when I need but overall, in 2025, I am going to shine like I never have before! Thank you for such an inspiring comment and apologies for the life story 😂🤪
@angelabay-jespersen6205 I love your comment and thank you. I have been housebound on and off for years with physical and mental health issues, so i have been unable to work but would love to again eventually. I had to learn to crawl before I could walk, I'm still crawling most days! I gave up on the health care system for help as I had been trying to get therapy since aprox age 16. I ended up finding a charity that provided trauma therapy and joining an addiction support group (NA) which motivated me seeing others had changed their lives for the better (I didn't feel it was possible for me but I was desperate to do something!) Decluttering for me has been waiting to happen since 2012 due to leaks/floods and mould in my property that finally was resolved last year (the pipe burst, so they found it and FINALLY fixed it). Everything had to be redecorated from scratch with minimal insurance payout, but I'm now gradually getting through all of the boxes that have been waiting to be sorted through. It feels so amazing to manage even small achievements, and it's a weight lifted as I get more organised and let go of stuff I don't need. I prioritised an art/craft area when redecorating but am still overwhelmed with the huge amount of art supplies I have accumulated so trying to donate some to charities to free up space. I have also started with doing swatches and am sorting through my scraps to seperate things that inspire me currently. I have a huge canvas that I want to start a vision board on to get me into creative flow again. I'm hoping this will help with my block with art journaling but I have started sticking some pages of my art journal 😅 I have found that changing one daily routine has helped me build confidence to try more. I am trying to learn to listen to my body more so I don't burn-out constantly, but with reducing and stopping prescribed medication (on top of being sober) has a huge impact so I have had to learn self-care/self-compassion and patience while learning to ground myself repeatedly!! I wish you all the best, big hugs x
Another Texan sending love to Wendy! Wendy, you are an inspiration so please keep posting (after a lovely break of course). My year in movie would be coming of age as we settle in to having a somewhat empty nest, letting our son spread his wings as an adult, and figuring out what I want next from life now that I should be worrying less about money.
Oh, Dear Dear Wendy, How lovely to find you on TH-cam today while I am having tea and blueberries. We are in the midst of a cold spell here in Maine (in the States), but watching you paint/journal has reminded me that I have so many choices. Thank you for adding color to my world! Cheers and salutations, Joan
You always inspire me. The past year has been constant stress and living in survival mode. In 2025 I refuse to live that way anymore. I'll be focused on the very things you talked about. Improving health.. art... and my own home nesting... etc. LOVE love love the hat! Great video.
Wait - did I hear your daughter suggest you make a calendar/journal book? Yes please!!! :) Wendy art on the cover and 1 for each month would be AMAZING!
Hi! Happy new year! I discovered you while in chemo 2 years ago while in a support/watercolor group and you are one of the lights that got me through recovery😊 Been back at my regular job a while but have been trying to give more energy to my artistic through sculpture and textile arts. I will learn soon if I need to head back to chemo, and am so worried about the possibility, but when you asked what would we be looking forward to this year it hit me that I am looking forward to tackling the art projects I have in mind, and it won’t matter if I am working or in treatment because the art will be there! Thank you and warmest wishes!
I love your pants, they're so flattering! It looks like your town is very crafty. Do you have a full-blown festival for New Year's? Oh! And James has cool pants too. Love to know where you got them.
Movie title. . .’running nowhere fast’ Going to ‘walk’ from now on, and be gentle in my thoughts. Adore your videos Wendy ! Your style ,spirit , and beautiful creations lift me up ! 🔆🩷
Thank you for sharing. Dreamy as always. Merry Christmas and I hope you and James have the happiest of New Years this year. To help with those winter blues, light a candle and think of me sending you all little rays of sunshine from Florida. My favorite Christmas movie is It's a Wonderful Life. And...this last year I would say was glorious, I bought a hammock and have been enjoying hanging it in all the parks around town after I pick up all the trash I find.Much love from Florida.
Your change in eating is very reflective of getting rid of inflammation from processed carbs…or carbs in general. My health improved so much from getting rid of most carbs….good for you. In fact when i go zero carbs i feel the best..but thats a personal choice. When i eat carbs i bloat up.
Such fun to look back on the last year with you Wendy. I’m coming 70 this year so it’s a real special time for myself realizing I’m expected by so many to be old 🤣🤣🤣 The last year was an emotional ride, almost like I had gone through menopause again after 35 years. So, as a movie it would be called “REBIRTH’. It really is exciting to now have my energy to go forward, free to be the crazy wild me again. Multimedia & nature will be the top runners of life and have choose to embrace the ridding of what I want without the guilt thinking ‘someone may want that’. I saw this the other day & found I was smiling while reading as it personified the way I was brushing off my worries of what the world has been & to open a new year. Sharing it here. The first stanza of Rudyard Kipling’s “New Year’s Resolutions” perfectly captures this allowance for wiggle room: “I am resolved-throughout the year To lay my vices on the shelf; A godly, sober course to steer And love my neighbours as myself- Excepting always two or three Whom I detest as they hate me.” Cheers to all 🍻🎉🇨🇦
I absolutely love watching you create. It's so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes. I also find it wonderful the way James helps you and supports your endeavors. It's such a gift to see it all. Thank you for sharing snippets of your life I truly appreciate it!!! You are an inspiration!!! 💜💜💜
Thank you Wendy for sharing your 2024 with us. And your pre- Christmas fun! I bravely did a two week solo adventure in Spain in Spring. Then after that, tore a knee ligament. Long story short, had full knee replacement surgery in Autumn. Slow, painful recovery. But rewarded myself with spending Christmas week in sunny Spain! Met lovely people. Walked daily with my new knee! I plan new adventures in 2025. Major decluttering. Improving my painting skills. And more ....Happy New Year to you and James..❤❤🎉🎉
I like to use old calendars and planners for mixed media sketchbooks. For the planners, I removed about half the pages, which I either recycle or reuse. I glued the remaining pages together in 5-page sections to make sturdier pages, and then I use old brayer paper or mediocre gel prints or cleaner pages and put down some collage backgrounds, or just gesso the pages for painting. It works with my kind of punkish, "trash goblin" style and makes me very happy - as well as being free art supplies! Today I cleaned my workspace (which also, all too often, reflects "trash goblin" in a less practical way!) and I'm gessoing planner pages while watching your video. I hope you had a warm Solstice, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year, and may 2025 be filled with lots of sweet, yummy chocolate and surprise windfall art supplies for you!
@@juliairwin4481 these are freebie calendars that the printers our theatre works with send us as promotionals, filled with old Saturdays Evening Post illustrations, but most of the images are getting covered in gesso and/or collage paper. I use the planner/calendar sketchbooks as a place to experiment and not feel very serious about my work (I am "cursed" with professional training) or care if things look perfect or professional. It's here I experiment with abstraction, or try new techniques.
Happy New Year! I'm so excited for you. It sounds like the transition of last year has been a springboard to a wonderful start for 2025. This past year was "Groundhog Day" for me. Lots of false starts, setbacks, and seemingly making little progress...until I stopped fighting, and decided to work within my energy levels and just taking each day as an opportunity to work, rest, and play. I'm looking forward to this year being a healthier and more positive year. 🤞 Wishing everyone a healthy, happy, and safe year. Love and light always 🧡❤️💜✨✨✨
Oh how I love Your wee treats for doing the Studio . Because of Your videos I finally started on my wee Witchy Lair and actually found half the Floor as well as so many Treasures . I even had enough space to do a Belly dance . You are like a Wee Fairy sitting on my shoulder cheering me on!! Thanks ever so much . I was also guided to go to the local Antique Market which is closing down, They are only open on the first weekend of each month and I said to my Darling I need to go, he laughed saying He thought our house was full but I had heard "The Whisperings" and said I need to go for storage ...1st thing I saw was a cushion with a Unicorn and Lion Medieval style which made m stop, I turned and saw the most perfect Oak Cabinet !! I have been looking for one for years and this was even better than the ones I imagined . I TRULY BELIEVE IT WAS A GIVE FROM THE UNIVERSE FOR FINALLY STARTING THE GREAT DECLUTTER !! We JUST squeezed it in the back of our car , fit perfectly and have filled it with My Treasures from inside, which has helped my declutter Dining room . It is like a game of Tetris but slowly getting it how I imagined . SO GRATEFUL FOR YOU encouraging us all here . I may need hypnosis to help clear out all the costuming racks in Playroom and upstairs but I am looking forward to only a few racks instead of 7 lol will let You know how I get on . Grizi x PS I will treat myself some dangly things, Festoon lights for courtyard and Fairy Lights ...dangling the thought in front of me to keep me moving hahaha
Oh my gosh ... I watched the movie "The Holiday" on Christmas night. I love that movie. 🙂 Thank you for sharing bits of your (and James') life with us ... always so inspiring.
I want and hope to focus more on my health, foodwise, etc., work on more movement (I am in a wheelchair but getting a fifth-wheel handbike soon), and thus build more muscles. I also want to focus on better planning and organizing my daily activities. And of course, squeeze drawing, painting, and reading somewhere in the mix!!
movie: "Letting Go". Highlights-challenges of travel, health/cancer treatment, and the death of my mother. Found my resilience in always turning to my art through it all, letting go of people, beliefs, and feelings to make room for new experiences, feelings, and future challenges.
Wendy I appreciate you so much and enjoy your videos each and every one. You have done so well this past year with making goals and following through. You are an inspiration for us and I can see a difference in you. There is a glow about you that I thought may had been attributed to you becoming a grandmother as that tends to do that to a lot of us when we become grandmothers. But you have proven by changing your eating and drinking habits and doing the big declutter that it definitely shows on you. I absolutely loved the top you bought that you said reminded you of your grandmother. 💓I am happy for you that you are taking another art class. You have a natural talent as an artist no doubt however it’s nice to continue to learn. I bet you will really enjoy going to that class. As always I look forward to seeing your next video. Happy New Year to you and James and of course your daughter, son in law and little granddaughter……God bless….Lisa 🤗💓🙏
Hello From Northern California,: As for 2024: Stressed and Worried all the time: The mini-series," I am going to work on not being both, this year...and tend to let things really get to me, such as external crap out in the world, in the country I live in and in general about what is going to happen next...So, just being present and mindful of this is my goal. Also, I've always been a pretty conscious foodie and in recent years have slipped off this wagon, so that is another biggy for me this year just remember who I am and what is important in life and not dwelling on crap I can not control or have little control over, but enough to walk away and choose what I am willing to let affect my day to day well-being. Happy New year and many blessings, joys, love, and abundance to you and your lovely family.
❤ Love love love ❤️ Your videos are so wholesome and they always fill me with inspiration. Thank you for sharing. Oh, and I love your new hat... it suits you to the tee. With so much love from my heart to yours from ZA 🇿🇦
I love your bohemian style whether it be clothing (love, love the hat!!) or artwork...you inspire me....I, too, have chosen to celebrate bright colors and patterns...esp in the winter months...I need a pop of color to get me through till spring. Best wishes for the New Year...thank you for the opportunity to share your time with me. (I found my very own "James" this year...I'm feeling very blessed)❤
When viewing this now, I love seeing the holiday views. I am missing the holidays, so makes me happy, Thanks for including the views. I love the hat on you! Happy 2025, Wendy!
Congratulations Grandma! The Holiday is my fave! Your hat is divine and dangly window decoration so fun. Have enjoyed your videos since I found you. Have a marvelous 2025. Sending love and light to you, James and your family. ❤
I absolutely love your new hat!!! And looks so cute on you 😊 thank you for your videos and everything else you do. You inspire me to continue to at least try to keep my light shining...
So good good to see another vlog from you. 😊❤ I think one of the highlights of my year has been my husband and I moving to a new rental home. It suits us so much better and is much better for creating my art. If this year was a movie I would call it, Changes. I have had so many changes in my life in the past year. Some were good, some not, but it's best to take each day as it comes and keep moving forward. ❤ Love to you dear!
Astrologically this year is a RENAISSANCE OF CREATIVITY AND ARTS!! WOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!!! LOVE YOUR NEW HAT!!! IT IS PURRRRRFECT FOR YOU! Hugs to You both from us x
Happy New Year to you and James! Thank you for sharing your journey with us this past year. I am looking forward to a new year as 2024 was full of too many unexpected emotional ups and downs! “New Beginnings “ is my movie title. Love and light! ❤️
River of Tears. The tears lead fortunately to, the ocean of healing. Thank you for the sharing of such precious moments with your family. And the foot game, so much laughter I bet1
Adventure was my 2024 year with travel to NZ and UK (I'm Australian) where I also went to Bath to see the poster exhibition because you recommended it! Ready to chill out at our fishing spot for a few months in 2025 and delve into water colour. And trying to sketch every day or two. Thks Wendy, and happy new year everyone.
Love, love, love you Wendy!!! You so inspire me!! Have been looking so forward to this video...just needed to see your smiles and hear your wisdom!! How is it that every hat looks so adorable on you?! Ha, when you asked to list a movie title for this past year, the first thing that came to mind was "Throw Momma From The Train"!!! It's been a challenge of a year and one that felt as if I wasn't even being cinsidered a part of it! All my hopes and goals were tossed in order to care and house my daughter and granddaughters due to my soon to be ex son-in-law selling the house out from under his family. It's been emotionally, physically, financially, and creatively challenging. But if I step back and look at the big picture, the title would have to be "Love Actually". The love for my family, the love of my husband to help me through the hard times, the love for my friends and especially the love, prayers, and support I received from my closest gurlfriends that kept me sane, kept me laughing, and took me away on adventures to reset and relax!! They have also kept me pushed in the direction to keep creating even when I thought I had nothing inside. I should count you among them! 😊 Going to put forth similar intentions this year as you have done. I desperately need to eat better, walk more, designate creativity as a priority, journal, and continue my adventures with my girlfriends as they help me to get out of my introverted box!!! My biggest intention will be to save money so I can finally travel to Europe! Oh, to paint outdoors in those old cities and beautiful landscapes!! So my word for the coming year will be "Intentions", not goals, not to do lists, but true intentions to better my life, to be intent and deliberate! Thank you so much for encouraging all of us creative spirits out here, you are a blessing! Oh, and I adore your "little ladies" you painted! They have such beautiful expressions and you just get better and better at it! Happy New Year!!!❤
My 2024 movie would be titled: "Forging a New Road". (I was widowed in 2021). My word is metamorphosis. My studio is shuttered for the winter and the heat is off. But in 2025 I will be painting in the house in the coming months because I brought in supplies, decluttering closets and file cabinets and casting things off to make way for new creativity and brainstorming. I've always found that decluttering makes way for new phenomenal energy and new thought processes. And life is always expanding in front of us - for a lifetime.
".. visiting ghosts.. before one last goodbye " your life and relationship with hubbyJames is absolutely beautiful. brought me to tears today. the simple joy you create together... thank you.
Great hat! I will be 70 in three months. I also have a new grandson. This year has been up and down. Towards the end I lost a dear friend. I'm determined to make this year the best one ever.
My bff moved on to the next plane of existence 2 days ago, we were ‘besties’for 41 of our 63 years on earth and I am missing her terribly. Her birthday is January 18, would have been #64.
Ooww, now it has been a real up-n-down year, both personally, here in the UK and globally. I think my movie of 2024 would be called 'Adjust & Keep It Simple, the secrest of staying sane-(ish) when the world has gone bonkers 😅' Thank you for another great video Wendy. I do appriciate all of the hard work you put in to getting them out into the world 😊
Listening to you discuss your health goals I was thinking how it all should be how I approach the totality of my life. Immediate gratification esp during depressing times seems such a simple fix but, as you said, will not sustain you in a good way. Sugar is a very real addiction for me and I know it. Dairy is another problem for me. TY for expressing your goals and encouraging the rest of us. Best to you and James and your family. A very good 2025 for you all.
It was the happiest of times, and the saddest of times… like you Wendy, I became a grandmother in 2024 to a beautiful granddaughter ❤. My daughter and her Fiance were married this year also. But ill health led me to retire from work in June, and we lost our precious mother in Nov, at the great age of 92! I have been feeling completely lost and broken and tremendously sad. I haven’t taken part in anything art related since I was a primary school student but I have this overwhelming feeling that I want to draw, or paint, or do something in that line. My daughters have gifted me with an introductory art class which I will attend late January. I’ve no idea where or how to begin but finding you on TH-cam today has given me great inspiration. I also suffer from Fibromyalgia so a lot of your content really resonated with me. Thank you for sharing so much of all these aspects of your life ❤ Here’s to 2025 🎉
Thank you so much Wendy and family for sharing a snippet of your wonderful family Christmas, for sharing the past year with us❤ I have an unknown health condition that was thought to be fibromyalgia but my legs go numb, blue and painful whenever I sit at a chair or stand, this has seen me going from walking everywhere to in a mobility bed and wheelchair. Like you I started a declutter process and love making art, many days I just don’t have the strength to do art but your videos sustain my creative side and soothe my soul🫶 I’ve developed panic attacks for the first time and whenever I’m stressed I just play one of you videos and it calms me, I honestly can’t thank you and James enough and I pray you and your family have an incredibly blessed 2025🙏 All my love Marnie🌹
Wendy, thank you for everything. I wish you a blessed new year with your fam. My word for 2024 is sadness. My mind does not want to go along with the other things. Thank you for inspiring me.
Hoping for everyone that 2025 will go better. Mine is starting out rough but hopefully soon. I have no energy to create or to even do basic stuff. Hopefully the surgery to remove my thyroid in a few weeks will be the start of feeling better.
Happy New Year to you and James. Im watching this vlog on January 6. Your hat is so cute! I love all the dangling items you purchased from the Christmas market. Many blessings to you and James for 2025. Take care. ❤
I had an awful 2024 on pretty much every level but have come into 2025 in focused productivity mode! New pencil case, new term! Lord knows how long it will last.
My movie would be called: An average year, except for the holiday chapter: A Bavarian woman and her car on a great and beautiful solo roadtrip through Scotland and England. Your hairstyle at the beginning of the video looked very nice and cute on you.
Please do keep making the videos. I have slowly taken up art again, finding time to be creative. I will start from tomorrow by changing my eating habits; I didn't want to do it during the holidays... I would really like to see how you renovate your forever home. I remember thinking, when you moved in and were renting, that it would be lovely for you to own the house, especially for the garden, because it is lovely to see how everything you plant will grow and change over the years. If I were to give my year a movie title, it would be 'Awakening and Letting Go of Fears and the Past.' I wish you and James and your daughter and her young family the very best for this new year.
The best thing about 2024 was that I bought A.Gallo watercolours...not cheap but handmade in Italy, made with unique blends of natural minerals, using honey and rosemary oil with amazing granulation. Thrilled to bits...absolutely inspiring. Love to you and James ❤
I am a S.A.D. sufferer. I hate taking the tree down after Christmas but I was delighted to discover that many of the French leave theirs up until the 1st of Feb, Candlemas/Imbolg(c). So I have embraced this tradition now we live in France. And oh no, we've been Wham'd 🤣🤣🤣 we'd managed to escape thus far 😂😂
Happy New Year Wendy and James! Loved this video. Loved the tour through your town. Your beautiful items you bought were precious, especially the hat. Bittersweet. This is my word for this year 2024. Emotional Roller Coaster Ride. That is my movie for 2024. My new word for 2025 is JOY!!! 😊
Congrats on your new dress! Your excitement over a successful project is contagious 😊 Bummer about your serger. Hope it’s an easy fix 🤞🏻 Happy New Year! 🎉
Eyeing the citrus and the cake.... would love the recipe for your carrot/parsnip/potato stew(?)- it looks delicious! Thank you for sharing the snippets of local Christmas life ; the cathedral, street shopping fair, the quirky-perfect hat you bought. And thanks for sharing your family Christmas celebration. Is the game with the balls specific to Christmas or just a random game(?) -either way, fun to watch. Best for the New Year to you and James!
Happy New Year Wendy! May God bless you beyond all that you could ask or think in 2025! I am looking forward to the finished journal look through! The changes you’ve made in your health choices are similar to my own, it’s an ongoing journey- cheers to us as we continue to pursue true health!
🌟🌙✨If this year had been a movie what would yours be called?
Be careful what you wish for ...
Exhaustion goes in overdrive or Getting older is not better
End of a Marriage 😢
"Is This Really My Life?"
@@doodle3161 So sorry 😞
My year has been a down ward spiral of ill health and unbearable physical pain, and my family wanted to put me in an aged care home. Shock, horror, confrontation! So I started losing weight, decluttering, downsizing, and getting fit in every way possible. Now I need to say to my children-Do I look like I’m ready for an aged home? That , so far, has been unacknowledged. Mmmm…. I have transformed myself in so many ways. I am so proud of myself. I am now ready for a year of improvement, self care, becoming aware of life, the universe, my actions and thoughts and needs. And working a studio that is now full of space, not clutter. Cheers to you, Wendy, and to me!
Wow 😲😳 so glad you have transformed yourself! Yes cheers to you🎉🍾🥂 Well done 💪🪄✨️✨️ Best wishes 🌠🌠for continued good health & independence for 2025 and many more years to come💪✨️💖✨️
Sounds like a year of true restoration! May God bless you this new year beyond all that you could ask or think! And May your children recognize the hard work you have put into your life to restore and renew yourself! I hope you are proud of yourself- I’m proud of you , that’s a ton of work in every area of your life!
I need to do that 😢 it’s overwhelming to me, but years and years of stuff 🤦🏻♀️….its paralyzing
Well done lass.
You go girl. It's easy for offspring to tell us how we should live without actually asking or considering our feelings and the consequences of what they think we should do.
The only thing I can say about last year is that this year will be better. I lost my husband in September after his health slowly declined, and I'm still coming to terms with it. But I have turned to journaling and art journaling to figure things out. My word for this year is "renewal."
Condolences for your loss. I'm pleased that you are journaling and art journaling to help you. Be kind to yourself. Sending you lots of Light for 2025.
I got my painting things out after I lost my husband 3 years ago and started painting daily.
It was very therapeutic and really helped me, giving me something to focus on each day.
I hope it does the same for you. Take care.
What a difficult year you had. Sending you good wishes for a much better 2025.
So sorry for your loss. I know that isn’t adequate but I’m am sorry. It must be difficult.
I'm so sorry. I lost my dad in 2020 and my mom this past November, so I get it. I hope that 2025 is kinder to you and that you find comfort in journaling as you continue on your healing journey. I know it's helping me. P.S. Renewal is a good word. I think that I'll use that one as well. ❤🩹🌅🌟
THE HAT IS TOTALLY YOU…I LOVED IT THE MINUTE YOU PUT IT ON!
I loved the hat. Do you have a link on where to purchase one? 😊 ty
Epic UNIQUE hat, ...completely you ❤
I , too, tend to feel a bit down and suffer from “the Januarys”. Winter can feel so long and dark here in Canada so I am trying something new this year and leaving my Christmas tree up. It’s one of those skinny trees, so it doesn’t take up much space. I took all the Christmas decorations off and put up some pretty birds and a few glass beads to give it a bit more sparkle. I am planning on leaving it up until the end of February but, we’ll see! The light does a lot to lift my spirits and it does bring a smile to my face!
I left my nativity up for a year to remind me who did the suffering truly.
Good idea.
That sounds like a lovely idea! My boyfriend and I just purchased and received a light therapy lamp to help with the never ending grey days here lately in Canada.
@ What a great gift! I will have to get one of those!
@@christinagely2086Yes! I’ve read many good things about them!
I'M replying in the new year, but my one word for 2024 would be overwhelming. Wendy your someone I have followed for a long time now, living in a rural area were friends and true close spirits are rarely available, plus becoming a recluse has something to do with that.
But I must say, a petite little lady that is on a small IPad screen is my closest friend and support and I love you for that. Thankyou.
TO DO LIST overwhelm. YES!! Being in overwhelm is crippling. I have to remind myself that baby steps leads to progress.
Hi Wendy, If my year was a movie what would it be called? I would have to say “Leaving The Past Behind”. My Mother passed suddenly at the end of 2023 and this year has seen a huge adjustment for my family. 😢 The grief and tears that have been shed not only because my Mum is no longer here, but the grief I feel for my family as we all drift apart at a time when we should have been there for each other. And the biggest realisation that I have to leave the past behind and forge a new path. It has not been an easy year so I am really hoping that 2025 will be a softer, kinder year for me and my family. I think we have had enough heartache for the time being. Thanks for your videos. They always gave me solace and comfort. You inspire me to be better. 😊❤
Your hair looks very pretty in those two buns you had in the beginning and I always get so happy when I hear the way you pronounce "aaaand" in between lines... It always cheers me up! I also had a rough year in 2024, my autoimmune illness was just bad and I had an overall difficult time with PTSD symptoms. But I'm sure 2025 will get better, I can feel it! Love your videos!
Aaaand we gonna do that ! We make 2025 a great year ! 💪🏼✨
That market haul though! So many things to love! Congrats on the new granddaughter...grandbabies are so precious. Movie title would have been Groundhog Day for most of the year, but things started changing for the better in the fall.
Snow today in Newcastle Upon Tyne so I did a wardrobe declutter and it feels like such a weight off. This year as a movie!!! The great untangling 😅 I will be 12 months sober (long list of things!) on Friday 10th!! Healed some trauma through therapy and am rediscovering myself at age 41!! I love this to summarise 2024....One day, she remembered that the only person who could make her happy was HERSELF! So she took back her power, re-claimed her place in the world and shined like never before! Happy New Year xx
What wonderful inspiration your comment is to me! Congratulations on being 12 months sober, what a huge achievement that is. It’s so great that you are rediscovering yourself now, at 41. You have so much time to explore who you are and what you love!
I’m 61 and have been diagnosed with Complex PTSD. I’ve yet to be able to access and therapy as is quite expensive and annoyingly 14 years ago I had an accident that stopped me working and I’ve ended up on a disability pension. So, I have to figure out how to help myself as best I can. One of my biggest joys this year was actually finding Wendy and her wonderful videos!
I’ve always loved art, since I was little but I was never allowed to learn it (mum was a narcissist, my sister and brother were favourites for different reasons and I was the “bad” one, the youngest, the outcast. I was the one who got in trouble, being beaten etc.
Anyway, then I married a narcissist who was also abusive. 🤣🤪
Anything I liked or loved doing was out of the question, except for my four children. It was because of them I eventually found the courage to leave. Then, just as I was starting to find myself for the very first time in my life, I had the car accident and here we are. I also have auto immune issues (no surprises there with my history, lol).
I am determined to do several things this year. Start an art journal practice, learn to draw, declutter, regular exercise, continue with eating healthier and trying to get our out and about more. At the moment i only go out for medical stuff or groceries. I live in the middle of suburbia with not a lot of nature nearby.
Decluttering is A HUGE job because my mum, dad and sister have all passed and since there’s only my brother (whom I rarely talk to) I’ve had to take on ALL their stuff to sort.
Art journaling, as I honestly think it will help with my trauma but also make ME happy. I just have to find/create a safe space to do it in. Drawing lessons, because I’m so much better in my head than in reality 😂 and in the meantime paint as best I can. I think Wendy said in one of her videos if you don’t know what to do, just swatch your supplies… so I’ll start there.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this part of your comment… “one day, she remembered that the only person who could make her happy was HERSELF! So she took back her power, re-claimed her place in the world and shined like never before!”
I want to be able to look back on 2025 and say I did that! I will shine when I can and cocoon when I need but overall, in 2025, I am going to shine like I never have before! Thank you for such an inspiring comment and apologies for the life story 😂🤪
@angelabay-jespersen6205 I love your comment and thank you. I have been housebound on and off for years with physical and mental health issues, so i have been unable to work but would love to again eventually. I had to learn to crawl before I could walk, I'm still crawling most days!
I gave up on the health care system for help as I had been trying to get therapy since aprox age 16. I ended up finding a charity that provided trauma therapy and joining an addiction support group (NA) which motivated me seeing others had changed their lives for the better (I didn't feel it was possible for me but I was desperate to do something!)
Decluttering for me has been waiting to happen since 2012 due to leaks/floods and mould in my property that finally was resolved last year (the pipe burst, so they found it and FINALLY fixed it). Everything had to be redecorated from scratch with minimal insurance payout, but I'm now gradually getting through all of the boxes that have been waiting to be sorted through. It feels so amazing to manage even small achievements, and it's a weight lifted as I get more organised and let go of stuff I don't need.
I prioritised an art/craft area when redecorating but am still overwhelmed with the huge amount of art supplies I have accumulated so trying to donate some to charities to free up space. I have also started with doing swatches and am sorting through my scraps to seperate things that inspire me currently. I have a huge canvas that I want to start a vision board on to get me into creative flow again. I'm hoping this will help with my block with art journaling but I have started sticking some pages of my art journal 😅
I have found that changing one daily routine has helped me build confidence to try more.
I am trying to learn to listen to my body more so I don't burn-out constantly, but with reducing and stopping prescribed medication (on top of being sober) has a huge impact so I have had to learn self-care/self-compassion and patience while learning to ground myself repeatedly!!
I wish you all the best, big hugs x
Hi, Wendy, James and the Unexpected Gypsy fans **** Wishing you only good things in 2025 **** Hugs from Lisa from Texas ❤
Another Texan sending love to Wendy! Wendy, you are an inspiration so please keep posting (after a lovely break of course). My year in movie would be coming of age as we settle in to having a somewhat empty nest, letting our son spread his wings as an adult, and figuring out what I want next from life now that I should be worrying less about money.
Oh, Dear Dear Wendy, How lovely to find you on TH-cam today while I am having tea and blueberries. We are in the midst of a cold spell here in Maine (in the States), but watching you paint/journal has reminded me that I have so many choices. Thank you for adding color to my world! Cheers and salutations, Joan
Soooo proud of you & James! Congratulations on being a grandmother!!!!
You always inspire me. The past year has been constant stress and living in survival mode. In 2025 I refuse to live that way anymore. I'll be focused on the very things you talked about. Improving health.. art... and my own home nesting... etc. LOVE love love the hat! Great video.
Wait - did I hear your daughter suggest you make a calendar/journal book? Yes please!!! :) Wendy art on the cover and 1 for each month would be AMAZING!
Hi! Happy new year! I discovered you while in chemo 2 years ago while in a support/watercolor group and you are one of the lights that got me through recovery😊 Been back at my regular job a while but have been trying to give more energy to my artistic through sculpture and textile arts. I will learn soon if I need to head back to chemo, and am so worried about the possibility, but when you asked what would we be looking forward to this year it hit me that I am looking forward to tackling the art projects I have in mind, and it won’t matter if I am working or in treatment because the art will be there! Thank you and warmest wishes!
Good luck in your health journey. Art-making is very healing.
I love your pants, they're so flattering! It looks like your town is very crafty. Do you have a full-blown festival for New Year's? Oh! And James has cool pants too. Love to know where you got them.
I want a bite of that Christmas chocolate cake!!! Happy New Year! Being a grandparent is the best.
Movie title. . .’running nowhere fast’ Going to ‘walk’ from now on, and be gentle in my thoughts. Adore your videos Wendy ! Your style ,spirit , and beautiful creations lift me up ! 🔆🩷
Thank you for sharing. Dreamy as always. Merry Christmas and I hope you and James have the happiest of New Years this year. To help with those winter blues, light a candle and think of me sending you all little rays of sunshine from Florida. My favorite Christmas movie is It's a Wonderful Life. And...this last year I would say was glorious, I bought a hammock and have been enjoying hanging it in all the parks around town after I pick up all the trash I find.Much love from Florida.
Your change in eating is very reflective of getting rid of inflammation from processed carbs…or carbs in general. My health improved so much from getting rid of most carbs….good for you. In fact when i go zero carbs i feel the best..but thats a personal choice. When i eat carbs i bloat up.
I love your hat❤. Also, the hanging little mirrors...
Your paintings of the little ladies are just so pretty..
💕
Breaking free from survival mode. It feels amazing!!! 🤩 💚🌿
Such fun to look back on the last year with you Wendy. I’m coming 70 this year so it’s a real special time for myself realizing I’m expected by so many to be old 🤣🤣🤣 The last year was an emotional ride, almost like I had gone through menopause again after 35 years. So, as a movie it would be called “REBIRTH’. It really is exciting to now have my energy to go forward, free to be the crazy wild me again. Multimedia & nature will be the top runners of life and have choose to embrace the ridding of what I want without the guilt thinking ‘someone may want that’.
I saw this the other day & found I was smiling while reading as it personified the way I was brushing off my worries of what the world has been & to open a new year. Sharing it here.
The first stanza of Rudyard Kipling’s “New Year’s Resolutions” perfectly captures this allowance for wiggle room:
“I am resolved-throughout the year
To lay my vices on the shelf;
A godly, sober course to steer
And love my neighbours as myself-
Excepting always two or three
Whom I detest as they hate me.”
Cheers to all 🍻🎉🇨🇦
I absolutely love watching you create. It's so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes. I also find it wonderful the way James helps you and supports your endeavors. It's such a gift to see it all. Thank you for sharing snippets of your life I truly appreciate it!!! You are an inspiration!!! 💜💜💜
Thank you Wendy for sharing your 2024 with us. And your pre- Christmas fun! I bravely did a two week solo adventure in Spain in Spring. Then after that, tore a knee ligament. Long story short, had full knee replacement surgery in Autumn. Slow, painful recovery. But rewarded myself with spending Christmas week in sunny Spain! Met lovely people. Walked daily with my new knee! I plan new adventures in 2025. Major decluttering. Improving my painting skills. And more ....Happy New Year to you and James..❤❤🎉🎉
I like to use old calendars and planners for mixed media sketchbooks. For the planners, I removed about half the pages, which I either recycle or reuse. I glued the remaining pages together in 5-page sections to make sturdier pages, and then I use old brayer paper or mediocre gel prints or cleaner pages and put down some collage backgrounds, or just gesso the pages for painting. It works with my kind of punkish, "trash goblin" style and makes me very happy - as well as being free art supplies! Today I cleaned my workspace (which also, all too often, reflects "trash goblin" in a less practical way!) and I'm gessoing planner pages while watching your video. I hope you had a warm Solstice, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year, and may 2025 be filled with lots of sweet, yummy chocolate and surprise windfall art supplies for you!
Ohhh lots of lovely ideas here thank you ❤
What a good idea for expired calendars.
I hated discarding old calendars. Some
of them are really a work of art.
@@juliairwin4481 these are freebie calendars that the printers our theatre works with send us as promotionals, filled with old Saturdays Evening Post illustrations, but most of the images are getting covered in gesso and/or collage paper. I use the planner/calendar sketchbooks as a place to experiment and not feel very serious about my work (I am "cursed" with professional training) or care if things look perfect or professional. It's here I experiment with abstraction, or try new techniques.
Happy New Year! I'm so excited for you. It sounds like the transition of last year has been a springboard to a wonderful start for 2025.
This past year was "Groundhog Day" for me. Lots of false starts, setbacks, and seemingly making little progress...until I stopped fighting, and decided to work within my energy levels and just taking each day as an opportunity to work, rest, and play.
I'm looking forward to this year being a healthier and more positive year. 🤞
Wishing everyone a healthy, happy, and safe year. Love and light always 🧡❤️💜✨✨✨
Oh how I love Your wee treats for doing the Studio . Because of Your videos I finally started on my wee Witchy Lair and actually found half the Floor as well as so many Treasures . I even had enough space to do a Belly dance . You are like a Wee Fairy sitting on my shoulder cheering me on!! Thanks ever so much . I was also guided to go to the local Antique Market which is closing down, They are only open on the first weekend of each month and I said to my Darling I need to go, he laughed saying He thought our house was full but I had heard "The Whisperings" and said I need to go for storage ...1st thing I saw was a cushion with a Unicorn and Lion Medieval style which made m stop, I turned and saw the most perfect Oak Cabinet !! I have been looking for one for years and this was even better than the ones I imagined . I TRULY BELIEVE IT WAS A GIVE FROM THE UNIVERSE FOR FINALLY STARTING THE GREAT DECLUTTER !! We JUST squeezed it in the back of our car , fit perfectly and have filled it with My Treasures from inside, which has helped my declutter Dining room . It is like a game of Tetris but slowly getting it how I imagined . SO GRATEFUL FOR YOU encouraging us all here . I may need hypnosis to help clear out all the costuming racks in Playroom and upstairs but I am looking forward to only a few racks instead of 7 lol will let You know how I get on . Grizi x PS I will treat myself some dangly things, Festoon lights for courtyard and Fairy Lights ...dangling the thought in front of me to keep me moving hahaha
Hello Wendy! Congrats on your new granddaughter! Happy New Year to you and James! Sending hugs from USA!🇺🇸
Oh my gosh ... I watched the movie "The Holiday" on Christmas night. I love that movie. 🙂 Thank you for sharing bits of your (and James') life with us ... always so inspiring.
I want and hope to focus more on my health, foodwise, etc., work on more movement (I am in a wheelchair but getting a fifth-wheel handbike soon), and thus build more muscles. I also want to focus on better planning and organizing my daily activities. And of course, squeeze drawing, painting, and reading somewhere in the mix!!
movie: "Letting Go". Highlights-challenges of travel, health/cancer treatment, and the death of my mother. Found my resilience in always turning to my art through it all, letting go of people, beliefs, and feelings to make room for new experiences, feelings, and future challenges.
Wendy I appreciate you so much and enjoy your videos each and every one. You have done so well this past year with making goals and following through. You are an inspiration for us and I can see a difference in you. There is a glow about you that I thought may had been attributed to you becoming a grandmother as that tends to do that to a lot of us when we become grandmothers. But you have proven by changing your eating and drinking habits and doing the big declutter that it definitely shows on you. I absolutely loved the top you bought that you said reminded you of your grandmother. 💓I am happy for you that you are taking another art class. You have a natural talent as an artist no doubt however it’s nice to continue to learn. I bet you will really enjoy going to that class. As always I look forward to seeing your next video. Happy New Year to you and James and of course your daughter, son in law and little granddaughter……God bless….Lisa 🤗💓🙏
Happy joyous 2025 to you Wendy! The hat is very much you! I'm loving it!🙏♥️
Hello From Northern California,: As for 2024: Stressed and Worried all the time: The mini-series," I am going to work on not being both, this year...and tend to let things really get to me, such as external crap out in the world, in the country I live in and in general about what is going to happen next...So, just being present and mindful of this is my goal. Also, I've always been a pretty conscious foodie and in recent years have slipped off this wagon, so that is another biggy for me this year just remember who I am and what is important in life and not dwelling on crap I can not control or have little control over, but enough to walk away and choose what I am willing to let affect my day to day well-being.
Happy New year and many blessings, joys, love, and abundance to you and your lovely family.
❤ Love love love ❤️
Your videos are so wholesome and they always fill me with inspiration.
Thank you for sharing.
Oh, and I love your new hat... it suits you to the tee.
With so much love from my heart to yours from ZA 🇿🇦
Happy New Year everyone. Have a fabulous day.
Thank you, and to you ☺️💛
I love your bohemian style whether it be clothing (love, love the hat!!) or artwork...you inspire me....I, too, have chosen to celebrate bright colors and patterns...esp in the winter months...I need a pop of color to get me through till spring. Best wishes for the New Year...thank you for the opportunity to share your time with me. (I found my very own "James" this year...I'm feeling very blessed)❤
My words are flourish, refresh, and focus.
You are such a wonderful inspiration Wendy I am wishing you all the best for fantastic 2025
When viewing this now, I love seeing the holiday views. I am missing the holidays, so makes me happy, Thanks for including the views. I love the hat on you! Happy 2025, Wendy!
Wendy your a breath of sunshine ❤thank you
Absolutely love your new hat! I’d love one!
Congratulations Grandma! The Holiday is my fave! Your hat is divine and dangly window decoration so fun. Have enjoyed your videos since I found you. Have a marvelous 2025. Sending love and light to you, James and your family. ❤
Love The Holiday! Watch it every year, Wendy. Happy New Year to you!
Little Ladies are next level Wendy!! CONGRATULATIONS ❤❤❤
Sweet Gypsy.....your new hat is adorable....just like you ! 🥰 wishing you and James a very happy and healthy 2025🎉😊
I absolutely love your new hat!!! And looks so cute on you 😊 thank you for your videos and everything else you do. You inspire me to continue to at least try to keep my light shining...
So good good to see another vlog from you. 😊❤
I think one of the highlights of my year has been my husband and I moving to a new rental home. It suits us so much better and is much better for creating my art. If this year was a movie I would call it, Changes. I have had so many changes in my life in the past year. Some were good, some not, but it's best to take each day as it comes and keep moving forward. ❤ Love to you dear!
Astrologically this year is a RENAISSANCE OF CREATIVITY AND ARTS!! WOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!!! LOVE YOUR NEW HAT!!! IT IS PURRRRRFECT FOR YOU! Hugs to You both from us x
Happy New Year to you and James! Thank you for sharing your journey with us this past year. I am looking forward to a new year as 2024 was full of too many unexpected emotional ups and downs! “New Beginnings “ is my movie title. Love and light! ❤️
I wish you a beautiful year .
Me also gonna dive in what my body tell’s me and listen and do what i have to do to heal …lot’s of love 🙏🏻
Dave Sanger Stage. Horse drawn.Love the Hearts dangle bits.Looking Magical Lass.Love the hat.
Thank you for sharing your lovely Christmas. Wishes for a happy, peaceful and happy New Year to you and your family.💕
River of Tears.
The tears lead fortunately to, the ocean of healing.
Thank you for the sharing of such precious moments with your family. And the foot game, so much laughter I bet1
Adventure was my 2024 year with travel to NZ and UK (I'm Australian) where I also went to Bath to see the poster exhibition because you recommended it! Ready to chill out at our fishing spot for a few months in 2025 and delve into water colour. And trying to sketch every day or two. Thks Wendy, and happy new year everyone.
The wheels of change have started rolling!!🎉
You make me believe all is so possible in life! Thankyou!!!!!
Love, love, love you Wendy!!! You so inspire me!! Have been looking so forward to this video...just needed to see your smiles and hear your wisdom!! How is it that every hat looks so adorable on you?! Ha, when you asked to list a movie title for this past year, the first thing that came to mind was "Throw Momma From The Train"!!! It's been a challenge of a year and one that felt as if I wasn't even being cinsidered a part of it! All my hopes and goals were tossed in order to care and house my daughter and granddaughters due to my soon to be ex son-in-law selling the house out from under his family. It's been emotionally, physically, financially, and creatively challenging. But if I step back and look at the big picture, the title would have to be "Love Actually". The love for my family, the love of my husband to help me through the hard times, the love for my friends and especially the love, prayers, and support I received from my closest gurlfriends that kept me sane, kept me laughing, and took me away on adventures to reset and relax!! They have also kept me pushed in the direction to keep creating even when I thought I had nothing inside. I should count you among them! 😊 Going to put forth similar intentions this year as you have done. I desperately need to eat better, walk more, designate creativity as a priority, journal, and continue my adventures with my girlfriends as they help me to get out of my introverted box!!! My biggest intention will be to save money so I can finally travel to Europe! Oh, to paint outdoors in those old cities and beautiful landscapes!! So my word for the coming year will be "Intentions", not goals, not to do lists, but true intentions to better my life, to be intent and deliberate! Thank you so much for encouraging all of us creative spirits out here, you are a blessing! Oh, and I adore your "little ladies" you painted! They have such beautiful expressions and you just get better and better at it! Happy New Year!!!❤
My 2024 movie would be titled: "Forging a New Road". (I was widowed in 2021). My word is metamorphosis. My studio is shuttered for the winter and the heat is off. But in 2025 I will be painting in the house in the coming months because I brought in supplies, decluttering closets and file cabinets and casting things off to make way for new creativity and brainstorming. I've always found that decluttering makes way for new phenomenal energy and new thought processes. And life is always expanding in front of us - for a lifetime.
".. visiting ghosts.. before one last goodbye "
your life and relationship with hubbyJames is absolutely beautiful. brought me to tears today. the simple joy you create together... thank you.
That hat/crown is SO YOU! ❤❤❤ I love finding items that feel true to me, so I know that feeling. ❤️❤️❤️
Love the hat - looks great on you too 💚
Solidarity is my word. It will be the same in 2025. Love your videos! Thank you for sharing your world with us!!
Thank you for sharing so much with us Wendy. You are a true gem and inspiration!
Good Morning Wendy, I loved this video, so bright and positive. New beginnings for the New Year ahead of us. Much Love to you. Sincerely Kassandra
Great hat! I will be 70 in three months. I also have a new grandson. This year has been up and down. Towards the end I lost a dear friend. I'm determined to make this year the best one ever.
My bff moved on to the next plane of existence 2 days ago, we were ‘besties’for 41 of our 63 years on earth and I am missing her terribly. Her birthday is January 18, would have been #64.
Love the hat ❤
Ooww, now it has been a real up-n-down year, both personally, here in the UK and globally.
I think my movie of 2024 would be called
'Adjust & Keep It Simple, the secrest of staying sane-(ish) when the world has gone bonkers 😅'
Thank you for another great video Wendy. I do appriciate all of the hard work you put in to getting them out into the world 😊
"This, too, shall pass" came to mind as a movie title. My ybmom used to say that and I have lived long enough to see she waa right.
That HAT!!! It’s FANTASTIC!!
Listening to you discuss your health goals I was thinking how it all should be how I approach the totality of my life. Immediate gratification esp during depressing times seems such a simple fix but, as you said, will not sustain you in a good way. Sugar is a very real addiction for me and I know it. Dairy is another problem for me. TY for expressing your goals and encouraging the rest of us. Best to you and James and your family. A very good 2025 for you all.
It was the happiest of times, and the saddest of times… like you Wendy, I became a grandmother in 2024 to a beautiful granddaughter ❤. My daughter and her Fiance were married this year also. But ill health led me to retire from work in June, and we lost our precious mother in Nov, at the great age of 92!
I have been feeling completely lost and broken and tremendously sad. I haven’t taken part in anything art related since I was a primary school student but I have this overwhelming feeling that I want to draw, or paint, or do something in that line. My daughters have gifted me with an introductory art class which I will attend late January. I’ve no idea where or how to begin but finding you on TH-cam today has given me great inspiration. I also suffer from Fibromyalgia so a lot of your content really resonated with me. Thank you for sharing so much of all these aspects of your life ❤ Here’s to 2025 🎉
I love the shirt. And the hat absolutely adorable. I love it and want one.
Thank you so much Wendy and family for sharing a snippet of your wonderful family Christmas, for sharing the past year with us❤ I have an unknown health condition that was thought to be fibromyalgia but my legs go numb, blue and painful whenever I sit at a chair or stand, this has seen me going from walking everywhere to in a mobility bed and wheelchair. Like you I started a declutter process and love making art, many days I just don’t have the strength to do art but your videos sustain my creative side and soothe my soul🫶 I’ve developed panic attacks for the first time and whenever I’m stressed I just play one of you videos and it calms me, I honestly can’t thank you and James enough and I pray you and your family have an incredibly blessed 2025🙏 All my love Marnie🌹
Happy happy new year!!! Hope it’s a wonderful one for you. Looking forward to more of your content this year
Wendy, thank you for everything. I wish you a blessed new year with your fam. My word for 2024 is sadness. My mind does not want to go along with the other things. Thank you for inspiring me.
Hoping for everyone that 2025 will go better. Mine is starting out rough but hopefully soon. I have no energy to create or to even do basic stuff. Hopefully the surgery to remove my thyroid in a few weeks will be the start of feeling better.
Love the hat! And the love of dangling things. I'm just being here lately the best I do. Thank you for the motivation! Love you.
I always look forward to your videos. Thank you for making my day. Ive been a bit down of late. Big hugs 🤗🤗
Happy New Year to you and James. Im watching this vlog on January 6. Your hat is so cute! I love all the dangling items you purchased from the Christmas market. Many blessings to you and James for 2025. Take care. ❤
Loved this video so much Wendy and when You spoke of Your Dressing up box I imagined a beautiful Pirate Chest ...I bet You find the perfect one!!
I had an awful 2024 on pretty much every level but have come into 2025 in focused productivity mode! New pencil case, new term! Lord knows how long it will last.
My movie would be called: An average year, except for the holiday chapter: A Bavarian woman and her car on a great and beautiful solo roadtrip through Scotland and England.
Your hairstyle at the beginning of the video looked very nice and cute on you.
Ohhhh sounds a wonderful time! Repeat for this year?🤭🤔🤔🌺✨
I love her whole style..
Please do keep making the videos. I have slowly taken up art again, finding time to be creative. I will start from tomorrow by changing my eating habits; I didn't want to do it during the holidays... I would really like to see how you renovate your forever home. I remember thinking, when you moved in and were renting, that it would be lovely for you to own the house, especially for the garden, because it is lovely to see how everything you plant will grow and change over the years. If I were to give my year a movie title, it would be 'Awakening and Letting Go of Fears and the Past.' I wish you and James and your daughter and her young family the very best for this new year.
The best thing about 2024 was that I bought A.Gallo watercolours...not cheap but handmade in Italy, made with unique blends of natural minerals, using honey and rosemary oil with amazing granulation. Thrilled to bits...absolutely inspiring.
Love to you and James ❤
I am a S.A.D. sufferer. I hate taking the tree down after Christmas but I was delighted to discover that many of the French leave theirs up until the 1st of Feb, Candlemas/Imbolg(c). So I have embraced this tradition now we live in France. And oh no, we've been Wham'd 🤣🤣🤣 we'd managed to escape thus far 😂😂
Happy New Year Wendy and James! Loved this video. Loved the tour through your town. Your beautiful items you bought were precious, especially the hat. Bittersweet. This is my word for this year 2024. Emotional Roller Coaster Ride. That is my movie for 2024. My new word for 2025 is JOY!!! 😊
Happy new year too you all , stay safe x
Congrats on your new dress! Your excitement over a successful project is contagious 😊
Bummer about your serger. Hope it’s an easy fix 🤞🏻
Happy New Year! 🎉
Always enjoy your videos!! I absolutely love how your articulate and explain things... You really are a great communicator! Happy New Year!!
Msrry Christmas and Happy New Year, Wendy! Your lights are really shinig bright with that smile on your face. God bless us all. ❤
Eyeing the citrus and the cake.... would love the recipe for your carrot/parsnip/potato stew(?)- it looks delicious! Thank you for sharing the snippets of local Christmas life ; the cathedral, street shopping fair, the quirky-perfect hat you bought. And thanks for sharing your family Christmas celebration. Is the game with the balls specific to Christmas or just a random game(?) -either way, fun to watch. Best for the New Year to you and James!
Happy New Year everyone 🎉. I love your new hat Wendy! 🥰
Happy new year, beautiful sister 🥰🥰
Fun hangidown things!!! The new hat you got is amazing! Super fun video!! Thank you for sharing you with us. 🤎💜
Happy New Year Wendy! May God bless you beyond all that you could ask or think in 2025! I am looking forward to the finished journal look through!
The changes you’ve made in your health choices are similar to my own, it’s an ongoing journey- cheers to us as we continue to pursue true health!
Love the little gifts for the studio, and you rock space buns! Happy New Year!❤